tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post8379743069745530373..comments2024-03-26T18:01:57.609+00:00Comments on Inky Fool: Sonnet 21 and the Lost OriginalM.H. Forsythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-31907834940342913722010-11-21T19:58:57.070+00:002010-11-21T19:58:57.070+00:00He must be turning in his grave, where he's bu...He must be turning in his grave, where he's busy de-composing.Fran Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07935088780461825341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-57008257588787343652010-11-21T19:11:32.704+00:002010-11-21T19:11:32.704+00:00I'm not going to say that it's a brilliant...I'm not going to say that it's a brilliant poem. In the first place the classic Italian sonnet, with two quatrains with just two rhymes and two terzines with three rhymes, is to my mind a much more satisfying form than the Shakespearean sonnet with its three quatrains and new rhymes for every one, and then that little distichon at the end. But all Shakespeare's sonnets have that drawback, so it doesn't just apply to this one.<br />Also, I cannot agree with all your strictures. It seems to me that the subject of the verb 'hems' is 'all things rare'. Read like that it makes sense. And all those disparate images (4) are indeed things the object of Renaissance love poetry is often compared to, and to enumerate them shows how odd they are. After all, Shakespeare does have his anti-Petrarcan moments.<br />To the casual observer the stars are fixed in the sky, and they are often compared to gold and candles, so I don't find that particular image very outlandish.<br />What bothers me about this poem is the Muse at the start. Is it a male muse, and does he write poetry? The usual muse is after all female, and inspires poetry.Ingridnoreply@blogger.com